Investigation of time-of-flight benefit for fully 3-D PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 529-538

  Surti, Suleman ^a,b   Karp, Joel S ^a,b   Popescu, Lucretiu M ^b   Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^b   Werner, Matthew ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Image quality; Lesion detectability; LSO; Noise; NPW; Time of flight PET; TOF

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

LESION DETECTABILITY; NPW; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33646388372     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.871419     Document Type: Article

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